Pete Dunne, Ricochet & War Raiders def. Undisputed ERA – WarGames

I think you can guess what I’m going to open this with…

That was mental.

Cole started the bout against Ricochet, until O’Reilly entered next by virtue of his win on TV, just as Ricochet is just beginning to build momentum. He and Cole batter the ‘One and Only,’ with the highlight being an assisted Ushigoroshi.

Dunne wants to enter next, but is cut off by Hanson, who is looking for retribution on Kyle for Wednesday.

Strong comes in next, and after a great flurry once again gives UE the advantage. This is until Rowe enters, again fighting off Dunne, teasing a bit of dissension among the team. The War Raiders take things over.

Fish is in next, but goes for Dunne, locking him in the cage with the padlock from his own cage, and chucking the key away. He grabs a bunch of chairs with UE logos on, which O’Reilly uses to play the air guitar. We do not deserve him.

Dunne can’t get in because the key was thrown away by Fish. Refs find bolt cutters and Dunne hobbles to the ring, brings a kendo stick, a couple of trash cans, a couple of tables, and a chain into the ring, and the assault that follows sparks “E-C-Dub” chants.

ERA soon turn the tables once more, and Pete Dunne is left to try to fight off all four opponents, which he does. He locks Fish’s surgically repaired leg into a kneebar, but O’Reilly breaks the submission up with a chain, which he then wraps around Dunne’s own injured leg. The pair then end up all tied up as the ‘Bruiserweight’ locks in a Kimura of sorts, but it’s broken up by Fish.

O’Reilly and Strong have Dunne locked in an ankle lock and chair-assisted crossface. A flying Ricochet breaks it up, and the babyface team have the initiative once more.

Fish spears Rowe through a table that was propped up against the cage in the center of the two rings.

O’Reilly has Ricochet locked in a Triangle on another table, but Hanson springboards off of the ropes from the other ring to propel himself and splash onto Kyle, with the pinfall attempt being broken up by Strong and a trash can.

Cole and Ricochet both climb to the top of the cage and are perched on there. They exchange blows, and are soon joined by Roderick Strong. They try to push Ricochet off the top to the outside so they win. Pete Dunne joins them though, and tries to do the same to Cole.

Soon enough, all participants bar Ricochet are caught up and we bear witness to what I can only describe as the doomiest tower of doom of all time. Ricochet is left at the top of the cage though, and decides to do about 432 reverse flips off the top onto all the bodies in the ring. Because he’s Ricochet and he can.

The eight men face off 4 vs. 4, separated by the rings, and after a tense stare-down, they all meet in the middle and hell breaks loose again. Eventually things break down, and Cole hits Dunne with the Last Shot, but the ‘Bruiserweight’ kicks out.

Dunne then hits the Bitter End, Ricochet lands a 630, and Dunne gets the pinfall to end an absolutely insane match!

Tommaso Ciampa (c) def. Velveteen Dream – NXT Championship

That was bloody unbelievable.

Dream was clad in Hollywood Hogan gear, but early on, Ciampa takes the headband, so in turn, Dream grabs the NXT title. He uses the distraction to get the upper hand and, of course, put his headband back on.

There was a pretty yuck-looking spot, wherein Ciampa rubbed spit all over Dream’s face with him locked in a Crossface.

Velveteen’s offense throughout the match included some call-backs to legends of the past. He hit a Hogan Leg Drop, and targeted the ‘Blackheart’s knee with a Figure Four Leglock, which Ciampa managed to escape.

The ref caught Ciampa with a handful of tights when it looked like he had the win in the bag, and shortly after, Dream kicked out of a Project Ciampa.

The champ brought ‘Goldie’ (the title) into the ring, but the ref took it off him, leaving it dropped in the ring. The Dream then nails Ciampa with a Twisting DDT onto the belt, but Ciampa gets out. The nearfalls continue with Dream kicking out of a draping DDT that put away Gargano in the past.

Ciampa tears away the concrete pads, but Dream manages to counter a DDT onto them. They both go flying over the commentary desk, and Ciampa attacks Mauro Ranallo. However, the distraction allows Velveteen to hit a Rolling Death Valley Driver on the outside outside, and a Purple Rainmaker on the inside, but Ciampa miraculously kicks out. I genuinely thought we were getting a title change at that point.

Dream misses a second Purple Rainmaker, crashing and burning on the outside, and Ciampa gets him back into the ring, nails a DDT onto the steel joining the two rings, and picking up the victory.

Aleister Black def. Johnny Gargano

Next time I feel like being kicked really hard right in the face, I’ll make sure to ask one of these guys. They’re dead good at it, it seems.

The match opened with loads of quick strikes from both men, an exchange so good it was hard to keep up with at times.

Black had control for quite a while, but a really nice Tope DDT looked to get things back in Gargano’s favor.

Johnny got cocky a couple of times though, and Aleister was always just a split second and a strike away from gaining control.

Towards the end of the contest, the mentally unstable Gargano asks Black for a Black Mass and actually gets himself in position for it. Aleister goes for it, but Johnny rolls it through into a Garga-No Escape.

Shortly after Black gets out of it, he strikes with a knee, setting up nicely for a Black Mass, leaving Gargano out on his feet leaning on the Dutchman.

A second Black Mass spells the end for Johnny, and brutal retribution is very much achieved for Aleister Black.

And WrestleTalk will be with you every step of the way, as we will be providing live match-by-match updates throughout the show, starting from the beginning of the pre-show at 6:30pm ET/11:30pm GMT, all the way through to the end on the night.

When I said mouthwatering, I wasn’t lying. Just look at the lineup for tonight: